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Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore, (Baruch 5, 1)
wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on your head, (Baruch 5, 2)
for God will guide Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with the mercy and saving justice which come from him. A copy of the letter which Jeremiah sent to those about to be led captive to Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to tell them what he had been commanded by God: (Baruch 5, 9)
And sometimes, the priests filch gold and silver from their gods to spend on themselves, even giving some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. (Baruch 6, 9)
One holds a sceptre like the governor of a province, yet is powerless to put to death anyone who offends him; (Baruch 6, 12)
They are like one of the temple beams, which are said to be gnawed away from within; the termites creep out of the ground and eat them and their clothes too, and they feel nothing. (Baruch 6, 19)
'The gold with which they are parading their futility before the world is supposed to make them look beautiful, but if someone does not rub off the tarnish, these gods will not be shining much on their own, and even while they were being cast, they felt nothing. (Baruch 6, 23)
Being unable to walk, they have to be carried on men's shoulders, which shows how futile they are. It is humiliating for their worshippers, too, who have to stand them up again if they fall over. (Baruch 6, 25)
Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)
equally incapable of distributing wealth or money. If anyone fails to honour a vow he has made to them, they cannot call him to account. (Baruch 6, 34)
These wooden gods overlaid with gold and silver are about as much use as rocks cut out of the mountain side. Their worshippers will be confounded! (Baruch 6, 38)
Their legacy to their descendants is nothing but delusion and dishonour. (Baruch 6, 47)
